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title: AZ-500 Labs
description: "Lab exercises for AZ-500: Microsoft Azure Security Technologies. Includes Applied Skills, Microsoft Learn, and Microsoft GitHub labs."
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**Microsoft Learn:**

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Microsoft Learn Sandboxes require you to bring in your own subscription.
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### Configure Microsoft Defender for Cloud for enhanced protection

**Applied Skills:**

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Applied Skills on Microsoft Learn are practical, hands-on exercises designed to help users build and demonstrate proficiency in specific technologies or tasks. These small labs focus on solving real-world scenarios, reinforcing learning through direct application of skills, and preparing users for industry roles or certifications.
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### Secure Azure services and workloads with Microsoft Defender for Cloud regulatory compliance controls

### Configure secure access to your workloads using Azure networking

### Get started with cloud security and monitoring tasks

### Deploy and configure Azure Monitor

### Secure storage for Azure Files and Azure Blob Storage

### Secure AI Solutions in the Cloud

**Microsoft GitHub:**

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Microsoft GitHub labs are series of labs designed to be used in Microsoft Instructor Lead Trainings delivered by Microsoft Certified Trainers where participants also have access to the environment to perform them. This means that for everyone else, it is necessary to bring your own environment to go through them.
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### Role Based Access Control

### Network Security Groups and Application Security Groups

### Azure Firewall

### Configuring and Securing ACR and AKS

### Securing Azure SQL Database

### Service Endpoints and Securing Storage

### Key Vault (Implementing Secure Data by setting up Always Encrypted)

### Create a Log Analytics Workspace, Azure Storage Account, and Data Collection Rule (DCR)

### Configuring Microsoft Defender for Cloud Enhanced Security Features for Servers

### Enable just-in-time access on VMs

### Microsoft Sentinel